CAMRA open letter to Authorities on Tax Obligation and minimal juice content material of Conventional Ciders and Perries
Assist shield conventional cider makers who make actual cider with juice content material at all times above 50% with a decrease tax responsibility. There are a selection of different benefits that can safe a long run future for UK apple growers as a part of this marketing campaign.#NotFromConcentrate #realcider
As a part of its biannual Cider Month celebration the Marketing campaign for Actual Ale (CAMRA) has joined forces with makers of actual cider and perry from throughout the UK to name for tax reforms that can help high-quality cider.
The buyer rights group has created an open letter urging the Treasury to extend the Minimal Juice Content material of cider – the quantity of recent juice a drink must include to be classed as cider – with a view to help makers of high-quality ciders and perries.
Present tax guidelines solely require cider to include 35% juice, that means drinks topped up with extra water or concentrates than freshly pressed juice might be counted as cider for tax functions, a scenario which the Marketing campaign thinks is deceptive to customers. As robust help grows throughout the true cider business, extra producers are being inspired to signal, with the letter as a result of be delivered on the finish of Could.
“CAMRA are campaigning for a long-lasting change to offer customers confidence that after they purchase a product marketed as cider it comprises at the least 50% recent pressed juice. We welcome the Authorities’s choice to increase cider’s ‘farmgate exemption’ right into a small producers scheme and are asking that they step ahead to help the makers of top of the range, excessive juice ciders and perries by rising the minimal juice content material for responsibility functions.”
CAMRA’s Actual Ale, Cider and Perry Campaigns Director Gillian Hough
The complete textual content of the open letter might be discovered at https://camra.org.uk/beer-and-cider/cider/cider-and-perry-months/producers-letter/
